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Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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This is why you should use your own email domain so you can just shuffle it around providers as needed.

For most providers, using your own domain is a paid feature.

If your domain provider provides forwarding email service, then with Google you can set it up as a relatively invisible alias to a regular GMail account at no charge.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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I pay $5 a month for Google Apps, which is completely worth it for me since finding good, unclaimed short email addresses on Gmail is not possible.

If all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.

Where does it say that Google Domains has free GMail integration? All I'm seeing is G Suite integration for $5/month extra.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Just last week I noticed a charge on my credit cars from Yahoo Ad Free mail. There was an online link to cancel but no apparent way to request a refund.

I have no idea how I ended up getting signed up for this. I've long used Yahoo as pretty much a spam bucket when I have to give out an address to someone I don't care to get emails from. (For all I know, I somehow got signed up a while back but I certainly am not aware of doing it and it's not something I would normally have any reason to do.)

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pay $5 a month for Google Apps, which is completely worth it for me since finding good, unclaimed short email addresses on Gmail is not possible.

If all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.

I'm using an obscure country TLD, there's only one provider for the TLD.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I pay $5 a month for Google Apps, which is completely worth it for me since finding good, unclaimed short email addresses on Gmail is not possible.

If all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.

I'd be afraid of Google's control over my domain name registration. Even if they don't do anything malicious, their "wall of silence" with respect to support leaves me very apprehensive. (Some people say it's different for paid-product support, but I don't know whether this includes $12/year domain name registration -- or will so in future.)

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.

Where does it say that Google Domains has free GMail integration? All I'm seeing is G Suite integration for $5/month extra.

They call the feature 'email forwarding': https://support.google.com/domains/answer/3251241?hl=en

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.

Where does it say that Google Domains has free GMail integration? All I'm seeing is G Suite integration for $5/month extra.

You have to use the Email Forwarding section in Google Domains, then set it up from within GMail.

GMail Settings > Accounts and Import > Send Mail As > Add another email address you own.

I remember it taking a few tries to get all the Domains info right, but I can send and receive email from any of my Google-managed domains from within GMail. You can try Googling for updated instructions if these don't still work:

http://theanywhereoffice.com/digital-lifestyle/how-to-send-m...

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